The Remedy’s Robert Smith has torn into dynamic pricing throughout a brand new interview. The singer/guitarist, 65, makes the feedback throughout a dialog with The Instances.

Dynamic pricing has change into a hot-button subject this 12 months, following the price of tickets to Oasis’ 2025 UK and Eire reunion exhibits reportedly reaching as much as double the value of face worth. The British authorities and the European Fee are investigating Ticketmaster in consequence.
Smith weighs in by saying he’s “shocked” by the revenue margins of some bands as a consequence of dynamic pricing. “I assumed, ‘We don’t have to make all this cash,’” he says. “My fights with the label have all been about how we will value issues decrease. The one motive you’d cost extra for a gig is should you have been fearful that it was the final time you’d be capable of promote a t-shirt.”

Smith continues: “However should you had the self-belief that you just’re nonetheless going to be right here in a 12 months’s time, you’d need the present to be nice so individuals come again. You don’t wish to cost as a lot because the market will allow you to. If individuals save on the tickets, they purchase beer or merch. There’s goodwill, they’ll come again subsequent time. It’s a self-fulfilling good vibe and I don’t perceive why extra individuals don’t do it.”

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Final week, Smith introduced by way of X (previously Twitter) that The Remedy will play a launch present for brand spanking new album Songs of a Misplaced World at The Troxy in London. The frontman wrote there’d be “no dynamic pricing” on tickets to the occasion, becoming a member of a listing of artists to reject the apply. Iron Maiden not too long ago confirmed there’d be no dynamic pricing on tickets to the UK dates of their 2025 Run for Your Lives tour. Oasis themselves have additionally eschewed dynamic pricing on tickets to their 2025 North American dates, prompting backlash from UK and Irish followers.

Smith has famously been outspoken over what he considers to be unfair music business practices. Final 12 months, the frontman went on a social media tirade about Ticketmaster’s “unduly excessive” ticket-buying charges. The feedback prompted the ticketing large to present followers partial refunds on tickets to The Remedy’s then-upcoming North American tour.

Songs of a Misplaced World, the primary Remedy album since 2008, comes out on 1 November.